Flow/My Fantasy Amusement Park / Do You Copy? at Refinery ArtSpace
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FLOW – Jamie Brown & Sophie Holt
16th Jan – 11 Feb 2023
You are warmly invited to our first opening celebration of the new year, a bright and colourful celebration of four contemporary artists. 5.30pm Monday 16th January.
We are very much looking forward to the collaborative exhibition by this dynamic Motueka based duo at @the_refineryartspace Jamie Brown is a self taught sculptural artist who’s work is inspired by his environment and nature’s raw beauty and simplicity, his medium is mostly natural foraged materials balanced with pops of vibrant colours.
Sophie Holt is a ceramicist and graphic artist. Creating artwork, particularly from clay, is for her an instinctive way to process experiences and thoughts: ’It’s in my genes and in my blood – clay makes me feel connected to “home”.’ Her images and sculptures are surprising, captivating and sometimes confounding. Born in Christchurch, Sophie Holt grew up in the The Netherlands and has lived in NZ for the past 10 years.
Flow – an exhibiton by tasman based ceramicist and graphic designer Sophia Holt @studiosoph and sculptural artist Jamie Brown. @jamiebrown_twigg opens in a combined celebration with
My Fantasy Amusement Park – Jenny Zhong.
16th Jan – 11th Feb 2023.
You are warmly invited to our first opening celebration of the new year, a bright and colourful celebration of four contemporary artists. 5.30pm Monday 16th January.
Living and working in Auckland, Jenny Zhong received her B.F.A and M.F.A. in Elam from the University of Auckland.
She is a contemporary participatory installations artist using mixed media painting and sculpture to examine the collision of imagination, fantasy daydream, play and positive emotions.
“My artworks are responses to states of fantasising. Fantasy can bring positive energy to people, and it can relieve the pressure brought by everyday life.
In my creation, painting can be a form of communication with imagination. Each story is a microcosm of life, a flourishing bubble influenced by my interactions with their spirits.
The audience will generate ‘touch’ through the guidance of play and use touch to extend and connect further with the artworks. When the sensation hits a crucial point, the ‘push’ will activate
the delay unit and the works will rotate as a result of ‘play’. Rotation plays an important role in my art creation. It is a time delay device. The rotation has the longest duration among the common dynamic motions.
You are warmly invited to our first opening celebration of the new year, a bright and colourful celebration of four contemporary artists. 5.30pm Monday 16th January.
Do You Copy? Sigi Kennedy
16th Jan – 11 Feb 2023
“Once upon a time the world became divided into space and time and twisted into different dimensions. The roblobs (little blobs with antennae) were scattered in this process. Ever since then they have been roaming interdimensionally, feeling lost, sending out signals and trying desparately to tune into the right frequency to connect with each other…”
An unusual combination of abstract and often gestural utopian landscapes and line drawings of comic-like sci-fi elements and characters contribute to the pop art feel which in some ways contrast with the painterly component of this exhibition. Exuberant and riotous in its colour pallete, Schmutzer-Kennedy, an Austrian/New Zealander currently based in Whakatū, eloquently tells a story of human connection and communication. About finding your people in a chaotic world.
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